Poems, written or on video for your kids.
To start, the maestro,
"Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" by Roald Dahl
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Poems, written or on video for your kids.
To start, the maestro,
"Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" by Roald Dahl
YouTube - "Red Riding Hood and the Wolf" by Roald Dahl (poetry reading)
You Are Old, Father William~Lewis Carroll"You are old, Father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head-
Do you think, at your age age, it is right?""In my youth," Father William replied to his son,
"I feared it might injure the brain;
But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
Why, I do it again and again.""You are old," said the youth, " as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back somersault in at the door-
Pray, what is the reason of that?""In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment-one shilling the box-
Allow me to sell you a couple?""You are old," said the youth, " and your jaws are too weak
For anything tougher than suet;
Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the back-
Pray, how did you manage to do it?""In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law,
And argued each case with my wife;
And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
Has lasted the rest of my life.""You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was steady as ever;
Yet, you balanced an eel on the end of your nose-
What made you so awfully clever?""I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!"
The Owl and the Pussy Cat
Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"
Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!
O let us be married! too long we have tarried:
But what shall we do for a ring?"
They sailed away, for a year and a day,
To the land where the Bong-tree grows
And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood
With a ring at the end of his nose,
His nose,
His nose,
With a ring at the end of his nose.
"Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling
Your ring?" Said the Piggy, "I will."
So they took it away, and were married next day
By the Turkey who lives on the hill.
They dined on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB
AND IT WAS ALWAYS GRUNTING
SO SHE TIED IT TO THE FRONT GATE
AND KICKED ITS LITTLE C#[at]T IN..
my daughter always liked that one
One for Ant.:)
YouTube - Bullwinkle's Corner - The Daffodils
Why does a childrens poetry corner have to sink to such lows.
It started of with the best intentions, but then most things do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nawty
Never mind, perseverance furthers.
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB:
IT'S FLEECE WAS BLACK AS CHARCOAL....
EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT,
SPARKS SHOT OT IT'S ARSEHOLE!
just love mary and her lamb.
here's another old one:
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB,
SHE ALSO HAD A DUCK
SHE PUT THEM ON THE MANTLEPIECE, TO SEE IF THE WOULD
fall off.
MARY HAD A LITTLE DRESS, TORN ALMOST IN HALF
..AND EVERYWHERE THAT MARY WENT,
ONE COULD SEE HER CALF!
SHE ALSO HAD ANOTHER DRESS, TORN RIGHT UP THE FRONT:
....but she never wore that one.
^^ clever stuff. Racist, good to see you're extending you literary talent.
Hoggledy poggledy piggledy dee,
the square root of 4 plus a 1 makes a 3.
Higgledy piggledy poggledy dar,
if you get drunk don't get in the car,
Haggledy paggledy puggledy doe,
why don't you walk, it's not far to go?
Hoggledy poggledy paggledy diggledy,
I'm orf to bed, so why do you question me?
:)
Hey. My kids loved Rocky and Bullwinkle and so did I. That's the beauty of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nawty
And kids I've taught for years have loved poems and particularly kids living in bilingual situations.Quote:
Originally Posted by Norton
Poetry is incredibly useful.
It helps with rhythm, intonation, accentuation and a host of other linguistic skills.
Plus its fun.
To read and to write.
Get your kids writing, reading or just inventing silly poems.
It's a great game to play.
Off soap box, drink beer..........:)
Gotta love Nedwalk and Tsicar...rattle snatchers.
I wrote this to my kids last night.
You are too good for this world which is why I shall protect you from it in the only the way I can which is to inhibit your existence in the first place. Don't get off on at the wrong stop like I did.
Sweet innit. :)
I think I would enjoy being a father, it would make ME feel good. One could be the best dad in the world yet still be unable to protect our kids from all that is wrong and fucked up. I seriously believe that at a population of near 7bn, and with mankind the way it was a thousand years ago only worse (if your eyes are open) - then there's nothing to gain from fatherhood except occasional self satisfaction.
If it happens by accident I will do my best and worry myself grey, but although I have entertained the idea, I would not knowingly create a new life and throw it into the backward mess which is humanity, simply because I was in a loving relationship (which I am) and at an age where I needed something different to do.
Scampy. Palms cannot get pregnant. Don't worry. :)
What if your child was the one that discovers how to save the world from itself ?
Such a waste....seven billion people down the drain....all because of you !!!!
What are the odds of that happening and why would you care anyway??Quote:
Originally Posted by Nawty
Seriously, no disrespect to the parents out there - what's done is done, your intentions were good at the time and you all want the best for your kids, but do you ever look at your child playing having just taken a look around at the world with your eyes open and thought, "What have I done" ???
Also, if creating your own product isn't a selfish act of self fulfillment and is sincerely about the enjoyment of raising a new life then why not adopt or foster one of the millions and millions of unwanted infant lives waiting to either die or be saved by somebody who doesn't need to look at his own genes to feel like a man?
Wow....you really never do understand about being a Dad until you are...its just cruel beating yourself up over something you think you understand...but never will...until.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
My imagination is good enough to get fairly close how how great it would feel on so many levels and in so many ways.
My point is a controversial one, but it's valid enough to make this thread pause for thought because it's a hard one to argue against. I do hope that this time nobody gives it the old, "It's our duty to keep the human race alive" line, that's pretty lame.
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are we back to Nawtys daughters bottom again ?
It's funny how fatherhood has become a kind of mystical experience the nature of which it is impossible to communicate or understand for the uninitiated. It seems to be something that happened within the last 40 years. Prior to that fatherhood was a fact of life and just something you got on with. A bit like your job.
I would like to be involved in the rearing of a child. It would not have to be my own. In fact I think I would prefer if it was not. I would also not like to do it full time. I sometimes think separated parents have the best situation. Part time parenting and part time freedom.
While everyone thinking to be a parent should pause for thought, not all parents should be parents, but then that is not a completely true concept either.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
I hated children prior to the birth of my son, children hated me also.
Based on this, i should never have had kids. Luckily I did because the day he was born, there was a complete and utter 180 degree turn and I went from really not liking to hold or touch babies, to changing my sons nappy before he was even 12 hours old. At 7 days I was packing all the necessities for a few hours up the street alone, just him and me, having coffee and reading the paper while he slept on my chest in his pouch at streetside coffee shops.
That kind of about turn and imagination does not exist until it actually happens I believe.....maybe just in my case, not sure.
Small odds...but somebody has to win the lottery. I would care because my kids and their kids and probably more on down the line will be living in that world.....if you could save the world would you say 'ok lets do it'....or 'why should i care anyway' and do nothing ?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
No, I usually say....'look what i have done'...how could i make something so wonderful that will grow up and if everything goes right, they will be wonderful caring adults doing there bit and quite possibly more to help the world.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
I just don't get that...how can it be a selfish act...I do not know any parents that had kids to be selfish. In fact if i wanted to be selfish, i would have stayed unkidded and spent my life with my wife with the great arse on beaches around the world...your priorities change for the better, hard to understand until you have them...this is one of the things you will never understand .....until !!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
It is a good point about adopting, but this is very personal, some can do it, others cannot....it is definitely not about looking at your own genes to make you feel like a man, that is just a ludicrous statement about the majority. I do not know 1 parent that would think like that....it is about the connection with your own flesh and blood and family and all the things you recognise in them from yourself, their mother and other family members and the blood connection that brings them close to you.
Adoption is an excellent way.
Moreso is the limiting of kids to fools that cannot look after them. Or families that have 9 or 12 kids and people in areas where they cannot afford to have kids, born into poverty and raised in it. Sure they should be able to enjoy children also....but it is about moderation and aware of your abilities to care for them also....not blindly humping and having a kid because of a fleeting moment, then raising them on a dumpsite.
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Originally Posted by Looper
You see my point.....no idea really until it has/or is happening to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Looper
I've experienced unconditional love and it's a great feeling, I suppose having your own child has the same feeling of elation, combined with concentrated doses of recognition, protectiveness, innocents and happy happy happy - it's the ultimate natural high, am I close?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nawty
At least you didn't say 'Witness the miracle of childbirth', that I don't get. I mean how is childbirth any more or less miraculous than taking a dump?
How is having a child more or less amazing than the lifespan of a butterfly, or the migration patterns of the blue whale?? It's just as biological as everything else is, but I suppose creation does bring a feeling of power with it, and if there's one thing that makes us humans happy it's power.
Why is it personal?Quote:
It is a good point about adopting, but this is very personal
Why is adopting or fostering more personal than having your own child?? Is there a taboo attached to it? Is it something not to be proud of because it's some kind of 'I couldn't have my own' display of weakness??
So another kid to add to the 6.8 billion, and one kid somewhere unloved and uncared for simply so we can have the luxury of saying 'Oh look, he's got your fathers eyes', cause that's what it boils down to, common selfishness... Something we're ALL guilty of, and I'm not claiming to be any different, I'm just looking at the subject from a more sober and less romantic angle.Quote:
it is about the connection with your own flesh and blood and family and all the things you recognise in them from yourself
Yeah nearly happened to me but i was fostered instead, and thank fuck I was. It would have done my head in growing up without all four of my parents. I have one of each left.Quote:
Adoption is an excellent way.
That's the majority.Quote:
Moreso is the limiting of kids to fools that cannot look after them.
This is my point, it seems that children are there just to be enjoyed. It's a bit of a gamble considering you have no idea how their lives will turn out, how they will end and how grateful they will be for being born later on. You could be the best dad in the world (which would make you feel good) but you can't save them from a divorce or a drug habit later on.Quote:
enjoy children
Totally, and the population is not moderated and the majority of children born on the planet will not be fortunate enough to have fathers that love them and care for them as much as the likes of you, Loy Toy and most TD members who are parents do.Quote:
but it is about moderation
I'd agree with that more as a metaphor for the modern world. :)Quote:
then raising them on a dumpsite
P.S. Hitler, Mugabe, Thaksin, Hindley, all the worst people that have ever lived have been babies and children at some point. Kids are nothing more than little adults, some are nice and some are not, but (in this day and age) they don't serve any purpose other than making us feel gooey and treating our own parents to a Russian doll style generation gift, a pat on the back, a tradition - and that's all there is to it.
hello scampy!!!
Gidday Nedders! :)
That is a croc, ask the mother giving birth if she thinks its a miracle....my missus told the nurse to fuck off in Oz.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
And babies are so cute....pigs aaaarrrrrse....first few days they are ugly as sin, months even sometimes. Its not until they firm up and colour up that they become cute.....as soon as they pop out they are ugly little suckers.....even my stunning daughter was.
Because not all can handle the difference between an outsider and your own, I don't think I could. I doubt that if I adopted a baby, that I would feel the same way about he or she as i do for my own.....thats just me and while we have or will be adopting our 12yo on probation, she will become, or has become part of our immediate family but I doubt i will ever feel the same connection and closeness to her as to my own.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
Some selfishness is a good thing, it helps you protect what is yours. There is good and bad selfishness, this is one of the good ones...simple.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
No, you cannot and this is one of the things that will worry you all your life. You then realise why your Mum or dad said the things they did when you were young, but you thought they were stupid or being a pain.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
Worse still is the thought of losing one, either by actually losing them as in taken from you, or by dying. The thoughts of these things at times bring you down and make you wonder what else you can do.
certainly not, as for me anyway, I never saw it as a tradition, myself and my 2 brothers were always very independant and never wanting to settle down rubbish. Certainly was not looked at as a tradition one little bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Gentleman Scamp
Anyway, the choice is personal, if you have 1 kid, you are doing the world a favour, if you have 2, you are keeping the status quo....if you have more than 2, well it entirely depends on how many and how you can take care of them and if taking care of them then falls on others and social welfare and all that crap. Not everyone is the same, not everyone should have kids. Some should in fact have them taken away. So then by not having any, you are doing the world a favour, but you cannot claim to think you are doing good becuase you do not know it from the other side, it will always be like that and there will always be the single guys and gals that detest the idea of kids and why.....but they simply do not know yet what it 'should' be like.....and nobody should be forced into it.
It works both ways....kids have a great life if they are taken care of properly and we as parents have a great life taking care of them and yes...selfishly watching them grow and have a hoot of a time in life.
My son is a bit of a joker, he is always laughing. At his parent/teacher meeting last week, his teacher said he is still fooling around a lot and making people laugh and very boisterous and then he said with a smirk ....'and some of the stuff he does it actually quite funny'.......2 days ago, we were standing in front of the ice cream machine at KFC....there was the missus, my 2 kids and adoptee, then there was a girl in front of them, the cashier and a lady and her son behind us. My missus said to my son, who was chomping at the bit to get to the ice creams.....ladies first, meaning the girl in front, then my 5yo daughter. He let out...'ladies first'...'ok i want to be a lady then'.....in a girly voice while flicking his hair.
This was all in Thai and made everyone surrounding him burst out laughing.....this 8yo boy might not grow up to save the world, but he might make a lot of people laugh and feel good every day.
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Originally Posted by 12Call
Worth repeating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nawty
Back on topic...I can do hour long renditions of Old McDonald..getting the kids to choose who I should impersonate next..animals aren't the name of the game,,it's the people down here..and we have a fucking good laugh...
That all sounds appealing, even reminds me of my own childhood - and I agree with your concept about the status quo and doing your bit to keep the population of good human beings afloat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nawty
50 years ago I'd be smoking a pipe and reading a story to three or four of my own, I just haven't fancied it since witnessing the effect of capitalism, the breakdown of a society that has convinced itself it's moving forward just because we now have iphones and mosques in airports and female pop stars singing "I kissed a girl and I liked it" (for impressionable youngsters old enough to download) and we seem to be missing something, we're not going forward at all. We can be in denial to our hearts content, but the proof is in nature - and (as Jeff Goldblum states in Jurassic Park) 'Life finds away' (regardless of technology and interfering with DNA etc..) - so put very simply, fatherhood has less appeal in the current climate (which shows no signs of improvement whatsoever) and it's a job i'd be very good at in many ways yet i'd have to be forced into it by a faulty pill or lucky sperm.
I would like to blame it on a breakdown in a society which has lost its way and an analysis of the state of pop-culture and technology trends resulting in a pessimistic prognosis for the planet but in my case the delay is mainly fear of commitment and fear of extending my sentence in the workforce for an extra 10 years to finance the project.